To make a long story short, I don't take any responsibility for anything I post here. It's not news, it's not truth, it's not serious. It's parody. It's satire. It's bitter. It's angsty. Your mother's a *****. You like to jack off dogs. That's right, you heard me. You like to grab that dog by the bone and rub it like a ski pole. Your dad? ***. Your priest? Straight. **** off and let me post. It's not true, it's all in good fun. Now go away.

He proved that no matter ho rich you personally are and how many Senators and Reps you can buy off, you still can't purchase the presidency itself.

Right, because there was no trading of access for money by Democrats this election cycle... Don't be so crushingly naive. It makes the rest of us look bad.

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Two years ago, Republicans liked to say that the only hard thing Obama ever did right was beating Hillary Clinton in the primary, and in electoral terms, there was some truth to that. In 2012 the GOP hoped to cast him as an inspiring guy who was not up to the job. But now we know the difference between the wish and the thing, the hype and the man in the office. [...] He stands somewhat shorter, having won 4 million fewer votes and two fewer states than in 2008. But his 5 million-vote margin of victory out of 129 million ballots cast shocked experts in both parties, and it probably would have been higher had so much of New York and New Jersey not stayed home after Hurricane Sandy. He won many of the toughest battlegrounds walking away: Virginia by 4 points, Colorado by 5 and the lily white states of Iowa and New Hampshire by 6. He untied Ohio's knotty heartland politics, picked the Republican lock on Florida Cubans and won Paul Ryan's hometown of Janesville, Wis. (Those last two data points especially caught the President's interest.) He will take the oath on Jan. 20 as the first Democrat in more than 75 years to get a majority of the popular vote twice. Only five other Presidents have done that in all of U.S. history.

Has anyone actually cared who the "Person of the Year" is within the last decade if not longer? It's either a novelty pick or someone unsurprising. Good for a day's worth of free advertising via soaking up a media cycle and that's about it.

I'll admit, it's very very slight, but you've never noticed how sometimes he skips a beat mid-sentence?

He's pausing, not stuttering. It's a pretty common trait of people trained to slow down rapid speech when they become orators. The "nice" thought about it is that his brain is far ahead of where the words he's spoken are and he's compensating and resetting. The "mean" thought about it is that he's forgotten what he was saying next. Stuttering is a completely different thing pathologically.

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I'll admit, it's very very slight, but you've never noticed how sometimes he skips a beat mid-sentence?

He's pausing, not stuttering. It's a pretty common trait of people trained to slow down rapid speech when they become orators. The "nice" thought about it is that his brain is far ahead of where the words he's spoken are and he's compensating and resetting. The "mean" thought about it is that he's forgotten what he was saying next. Stuttering is a completely different thing pathologically.

Ooooooookay. It's a disruption of his speech. It's noticable. Call it whatever the **** you want.

Kinda. Not always on the election year, but as a general rule every president gets one, usually one for each term they serve. Obama got two. W Bush got two. Clinton got two. HW Bush got one. Reagan got two. Carter got one. Ford got dissed, but Nixon got two. Johnson got two, while Kennedy got just one. Eisenhower got two (but one was while serving in the military). Truman got two, while FDR got just three. So it is a relatively predictable pattern.

The timing in this case is a bit of a gimme though. Bush is the only other president I could find who got one in each year he was elected, but he actually did a lot that year (whether you agree or not with what he was doing). I don't think that Obama did a whole lot at all this year other than get re-elected. Certainly, nothing remarkable enough to justify the pick IMO. Could have at least waited to see if something happened worthwhile I suppose.

I'll admit, it's very very slight, but you've never noticed how sometimes he skips a beat mid-sentence?

He's pausing, not stuttering. It's a pretty common trait of people trained to slow down rapid speech when they become orators. The "nice" thought about it is that his brain is far ahead of where the words he's spoken are and he's compensating and resetting. The "mean" thought about it is that he's forgotten what he was saying next. Stuttering is a completely different thing pathologically.

Yeah, see the pausing I had noticed, and I always assumed it was part of his speaking pattern, like Smash is saying here. It never crossed my mind that it could be considered a stutter. That's just what good speakers do.

#27Palpitus1,
Posted:Dec 23 2012 at 3:20 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) Obiously, he sucks. No more worthy than any other of the 210 heads of state. But--other candidates?

#28Palpitus1,
Posted:Dec 23 2012 at 3:23 AM, Rating: Sub-Default, (Expand Post) P.S. the above post was made as if Obama actually was the Time Person of the Year, and not just a satire. Which satire is becoming very hard to distinguish from reality.

Not to argue with the idea that Obama received a lot of large donor dollars or make him out to be "better", but much of Romney's money went through super PACs rather than his campaign. All those summer-fall reports you'd hear of Romney "out raising" Obama, Romney never beat him campaign-to-campaign, it was always the total of campaigns plus PACs plus party committees. Just looking at campaign contributions doesn't show the whole story.

I wonder what the story was on the $5,000 Obama self-financed his campaign with. Registration fees or something?

Not to argue with the idea that Obama received a lot of large donor dollars or make him out to be "better", but much of Romney's money went through super PACs rather than his campaign. All those summer-fall reports you'd hear of Romney "out raising" Obama, Romney never beat him campaign-to-campaign, it was always the total of campaigns plus PACs plus party committees. Just looking at campaign contributions doesn't show the whole story.

I wonder what the story was on the $5,000 Obama self-financed his campaign with. Registration fees or something?

I believe that the maximum you can donate directly to a campaign as an individual is $5,000 or so. Half in the primary, half in the general. Any more money has to go through PACs or to the party itself.

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